Wednesday, 1 April 2009

This is something I ate from a Italian delli ( you can buy things there and bring home and heat them in the MW) yeah there are sometimes when I am reallyin no mood for cooking i go to one of these shops and buy premade food.
I don't do it often as mostly I tend to critize the food or even moan about how much one has to pay for each portion etc etc........

So as the dish was so tasty I thought why not recreate them at home.
This recipe is not from any book i just made it myself after eating the dish and I have to admit, it is even more better than in the shop.

Cut Zucchini in three blokes each, scoop the filling and keep them aside.
Now mix the meat with a bit of the scooped out flesh from the zucchin ( finley cut), with paprika powder, the 2 tbsp parsley, 1 garlic, read brumbs and peper and salt.
Fill the zucchin and heat a bit of oil in a pan and fry the zucchini all the sides, it will take just few minutes. Remove the from the pan.
Now to the same pan add the onions and bacon , fry for few minutes, add the tinned tomatoes and the rest of the ingridients, bring it to boil. You can also add the rest of the zuchini you scoped out to this mix.
Take a oven proof dish, place the filled Zucchin, pour the sauce over it and bake them in a preheated oven 200°c for about 25 to 30 minutes or untill they are cooked.
Last minute if the sauce is bit watttery you can add corn flour mixed with a bit of water so the sauce gets thicker.
Serve with french bread or potato mash.

My daughter don't like zucchin so i make small meat balls fry them a bit and add to the sauce before i put them in the oven. So I don't have to make myself grumby when she don't eat the dish saying she don't like zucchini.

Asha yeah i know i know sometimes i am so angry with shyama when she says she don't want to eat her veg. Shyama loves masala dosa but then once she ate one and had a huge piece of onion and then from that time on she don't eat them she goes for plain :-)We had this for lunch 2 days ago with mash potato.

wow...dish looks gorgeous and yummy! my son also very choosy eater like yours!!! My son eats masala dosa from particular shop. Yogurt/sambar rice from temple only..so many conditions and restrictions....

We make this a lot in Greece and we stuff tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, zucchini even onions, together or each one separately. Today I made stuffed tomatoes but I always prefer them without any meat. It was clever to add the meatballs in the sauce.

Hmm, I will try this comment again. Thanks for the comment on my dessert plates, I want to keep them all but really, where would I put them? The zucchini sounds wonderful. I love Italian food especially the rustic style. And your Panna Cotta is luscious.

slurp slurp, yummy ! this looks absolutely delicious; my kids are fussy when it comes to vegetables too, but this one, they'll finish it in no time! All of us love it, i add some white wine instead of water; your preparation looks yummm!